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April 2, 2009

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So today I get a mass email sent out by Jazzy B of Battle Music Group. It was an article written by Mary Turner called Hot Mess at the 3rd Annual DMV EMAs. Of course I read it, because I’ve been asking several people about their thoughts on the awards show. I’m reading the article, and then I come to this:

The first three awards of the night went to DJ Heat of WPGC, for Most Supportive Radio Personality, Media Person, and DJ. A brief chant from the general admission seating area to “play us on the radio” erupted immediately after the awards were presented.

“DJ Heat doesn’t even play or support underground artists in the DMV,” he said. DJ Kash Monee, whose three radio stations reach over a million listeners daily, is a previous two-time DMV EMA winner and A&R for Warner Music Group.

Really?? I don’t play or support DMV artists? Wooooow. Okay. lol I’m not sweating that statement, because I know what I do. The thing that gets me is that Kash Monee has never addressed ME if he feels that way. Dude even came up to me at the awards and we exchanged courtesies. What’s even funnier, is this is not the first time that I’ve heard about Kash Monee saying something about me. I didn’t let it bother me, because if I didn’t hear it straight from the person, I’m not gonna accuse folks. But to see it in print. And like I said, we even exchanged greetings and a few sentences at the award. All the time I guess he felt this way. *sigh* I wouldn’t mind talking to this dude face to face. I pride myself on my name and what I do. When someone says other wise, I like getting it straightened out.

Here’s the full article:Hot Mess at the 3rd Annual DMV EMAs

By Mary Turner

The 3rd Annual DMV Entertainment & Music Awards was advertised as the event of the year for underground artists in the area. With scandal and controversy surrounding the event and its sponsors, the event left many artists upset.

Despite the built up buzz, and a pre-event nominee party hosted by Target Squad at the largest nightclub in D.C. — Sunday’s awards show was a hot mess. With a feeble attempt at a red carpet, unorganized seating, and a slew of production hiccups, the show ran about as smooth as kindergarten Christmas pageant.

Hosted by Onix from VH1’s “I Love New York”, and “I Love Money: Season 2,” the highly anticipated pre-show event left much to be desired. Aside from Mya, Lil’ Mo, Mambo Sauce, and Jon Boy from “The White Rapper Show”, the crowd showed little excitement for the other artists who walked the 10 foot long “gold” carpet.

Inside the Hampton Conference Center, VIP tables were decorated nicely; however it didn’t take long to turn that into a mess as well. Within the hour, the tables were covered with business cards, demos, and flyers. All the pre-show self-promotion helped push back the show by nearly two hours.

After a never-ending video montage of the nominees played on the large side screens, the audience was then treated to an offbeat, sloppy dance routine by the dance troupe Dynamic. One of the dancers from Dynamic admitted backstage that he had just learned the steps to the dance the night before, and it showed.

The show then hit another bump when a poor audience reaction to the hosts, DJ Rico and Lil’ Mo, inspired the pair to turn around and do-over their entrance, only this time directing the audience to “make some noise.”

The first three awards of the night went to DJ Heat of WPGC, for Most Supportive Radio Personality, Media Person, and DJ. A brief chant from the general admission seating area to “play us on the radio” erupted immediately after the awards were presented.

“DJ Heat doesn’t even play or support underground artists in the DMV,” he said. DJ Kash Monee, whose three radio stations reach over a million listeners daily, is a previous two-time DMV EMA winner and A&R for Warner Music Group.

In an attempt to “kash” in on the DJ’s popularity, the awards show’s producer, Mahogany Jones, tried to pressure Monee into “donating” over three thousand dollars to broadcast the event live.

DJ Kash Monee said in a post-show interview that he would never agree to “pay for his right to freedom of the press.” Monee also put a station wide ban on any coverage of the DMV EMAs.

The DMV Entertainment &Music Awards, founded by Brother Maniac, is intended to honor and recognize outstanding artists who maintain residency in the District of Columbia, Maryland, and Virginia. However, when local artists realized that many of the sponsors, like Brother Maniac and Mahogany Jones, were nominated and/or won, they spoke out against it.

Pre-show host, Onix, said that “the underground hip hop community here in the DMV needs to take a lesson from the rock music community; they need to start legitimately supporting each other.”

Jazzy B, CEO of Battle Music Group also said, “Sponsors should absolutely not be nominated.”

Jazzy B, who was nominated for Best Manager, said that an award loses its legitimacy when people think it has been bought.

Producer of the year nominee, Text Sosa disagreed, saying that many of the artists who are nominated have the funds to sponsor the event because “they grind harder than everyone else.” Sosa said that just because a nominee is a sponsor, that does not mean they don’t deserve to win.

On the other hand, several non-sponsoring artists, like Shy Thoro, La Vie, and Dre all day in the paint, were loudly applauded and supported as they accepted their awards.

Best Producer of the year, X-Quiz, received an especially large applause. Having had supplied many in the room with beats last year, X-Quiz was clearly a fan favorite.

“He makes some of the hottest beats in the DMV” said Prhyme, a well known female MC and Detroit Native. After touring for the last year, Prhyme said she looks forward to releasing new singles produced by X-Quiz this summer.

Around 1:00 am, the last of the awards were handed out, and while the event provided an opportunity for underground artists to meet-and-greet prominent industry figures in the area, the usefulness of the event amounted to little more than a reunion for most.

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THIS IS COON-ERY AT IT’S BEST! THIS IS LIKE LIL KIDS FIGHTING OVER WHO GETS TO BE THE FAVORITE. I’M LOSING MAD RESPECT FOR A LOT OF FOLKS OVER THIS ONE. LOVE YA’LL TO DEATH, BUT I’M REALLY DISPAPPOINTED THAT PEOPLE ARE USING THESE BLOGS TO EXPRESS THEMSELVES IN THIS MANNER!

I don't even know what to say about all of this. I'm EXTREMELY disappointed about the sideshow that has emerged as a result. i can honestly say from EXPERIENCE AND FIRST HAND KNOWLEDGE that Heat is as supportive as any DJ this city has EVER had. She is very forgiving and deals with misunderstandings better than anyone i ever met. we have had our differences also in the past. this is the first time i ever brought this up publicly but i think it warrants to be said that this woman embraced us (me and Konshens) because we came to her as MEN...respectable men...and approached this woman and settled our differences face-to-face. now i know, respect and trust Heat more than any other public/media person i know PERIOD! I understand now that THIS award show was intended to recognize the “underground” when it initially formed…which I didn’t know before. With that said, I can be unbiased in saying that I can see how someone who considers themselves “underground” can be upset about a “mainstream” DJ winning an award…HOWEVER, THIS PARTICULAR DJ HAS been operating underground as well as in the mainstream! I admit, the credibility of the awards are in question when you look at the broad stroke of how some “others” were able to be nominated and won, BUT I can honestly say that I don’t disagree with ANY kudos Heat received.

@ms. turner...i know it’s your responsibility to do what do...you're in the media. It’s you job to report what people say. Your article points out a lot of mishaps and there is merit to what you are saying about the vent itself…no beef with you about that. i just don't believe that people involved in that article should be saying something to someone in a PUBLC forum that they can't (or didn’t say) to their face. it’s just wrong on so many levels to me. but that’s me...not gonna knock what other people do and how they handle their situations. but it is very sad and very disappointing. Mainly because, as Heat eluded to by giving her resume of accomplishments, i have seen this transformation and been quietly in trenches for well over 20 yrs in this city. I am proud to see how things have progressed, yet mystified how we STILL can't wait to tear each other down at any given moment. It’s certainly painful to watch, especially coming from someone who feels that I have helped lay the groundwork in my own lil way to get the area music biz to this point. i have not touched this subject or this blog on purpose because it was TOO painful to read and discuss. i am totally disgusted by the lack of dignity and pride we are displaying here. Not only as a music community, but as HUMAN BEINGS!

To see and read all the disrespect to our black women on this post goes WAYYYYY beyond the music and the article at hand. Just that alone is horrible to read…whether it’s true or not is not the issue. To put someone’s personal issues on a blog like this downright wrong...i really don't care how you TRY to justify it. there are alot of things i know about people and ALOT of things I’m sure people know about me. But i damn sure don't expect or respect anyone would say anything about me on a blog, article, a note on a napkin or whatever without saying to my face first. not just to be justify saying it publicly, but just to give the opportunity to clear up what COULD be a misguided, misinterpreted, misinformed or a downright ignorant to the ALL the facts statement that COULD ruin the lives and careers of people forever.

in this world, all people really have that is of real worth is your good name. to UNNECESSARILY drag people name into the mud in a BUSINESS environment over some personal issues is low and uncalled for. how people are living outside of the business is of NO interest to me and i shouldn't be subjected to know all of this personal information about ANYONE in this music business community.

even as far as the "where is Wale really from?" issue. i sit and watch how all of that is playing out and I’m disgusted by that too. Nobody really jumped on that UNTIL one rapper did a dis song, then all of sudden all of these people that had something to say negative about Wale came out the wood work! I’ve always maintained that JUST because I’m from DC don’t mean I have to LIKE Wale…not a fan at all…don’t have a problem admitting that so don’t think I’m bandwagon-ing here or trying to defend him. BUT, I will say that I do support the brother because he is working hard and getting where he gotta get to with hustle and determination…he is playing the game…and that’s 10 times more than I can say about a lot of other artists in this city! i know we put alot of emphasis on where someone is from, but honestly i don't care. none of us should really care. but we (in the dc area) can be soooo small minded that we cannot see the BIG picture of this music business. Do u really think someone in south dakota know where NW DC is or even care if Wale grew up in NW or 20 minutes up the road in MD. NO! Would i care if Common came out said he from some suburb of Chicago and not really from Chicago...NO! all i care about in the end is does that person have good music and if they are a good person.

But like I said on those blogs, it’s wrong to attack someone now because its “open season” to just GO on them! Just because Jazzy and/or Kash said something negative in an article is NO reason to GO on either of them like this. It may be wrong what Kash said to some, but apparently not to him. Yes, he should have and certainly could addressed this directly to Heat, but would that have really soften the blow of him saying it publicly and have the world read an excerpt of what could have been a whole conversation? I don’t know and neither do anyone else reading this. So far as I’m concerned the only two people who should be involved in discussing that is Heat and Kash. But since Heat put this as a blog she is seeking opinions about that…I just stated mine. But this whole ‘nother issue has arrived and has permeated the blog that had NOTHING to do with the ORIGINAL premise Heat put this blog up for!

Now, with Jazzy…Aluv, you KNOW I love you girl...but that went a lil TOO far. No matter how upset you are about whatever you are upset about…no matter how much dirt you (or anyone else for that matter) have on this woman, THESE comments above were totally uncalled for (and yes, I will call you and talk about it since I’m writing about it…normally I would call before I speak on this so I could understand WHY you felt you had to go on her like this…but I felt SO emotional about this for so many other reasons that I have to type this out why it is so heavily on my mind…sorry Luv…still love you…still love your music). Honestly, i don't care if someone fucks the world, sleeps with married men, take Viagra, have a dirty house, have a stinky pussy, is fat, a bitch, hungry, sweaty (did i miss any other personal negative statements?). it’s really not something i WANT or NEED to know #1…and secondly is not something I want or need to know in order to do BUSINESS with someone. if they do dirty business, then i just won't fuck with them anymore on that level...plain and simple. Stick to being professional in EVERY circumstance and NONE of this would have occurred, especially the content of the article itself. I know I’m not perfect and probably fall short myself, but damn, this blog went totally into wayyyy left field.

Hello DMV … First let me say this, I was one of the “distinguished panelists” that voted in the DMV EMA’s. I am media and was not invited to the event BUT I am not salty about it nor do I have anything negative to say about Brother Maniac. I just decided to chalk it up as an event I just wouldn’t attend.

Now, I read most of your comments and overall the amount of immaturity and lack of personal/professional accountability amazes me. The time and effort it takes for you to post negative comments is mind-boggling. This same time could have been used to ASSIST Brother Maniac with developing a better event or developing an event on your own to help yourself and other artists. A lot of you I know of … some of you (you know who you are) have attempted to be just as disrespectful to me … and the fact you continue to be disrespectful & ungrateful will continue to hold you back. To simply put it … Brother Maniac … I respect what you do. I support you. Unlike many people that want to point out flaws in you and your events … I extend my hand to assist you where ever you need. DMV artists heed this, “You never know under what circumstances you will encounter someone in the future that you have disrespected. Also, you better hope they have a forgiving heart and decide to help you.” For you artists that are upset because you spent hundreds of dollars for a table … well … I think that was stupid. Stop trying to be something that you are not or can’t afford … just to show off. Realize that things happen and move on. Don’t spend it unless you have it. The more you complain about what you didn’t get IN A PUBLIC forum makes you look very silly. Lastly, the effort it takes to write negative things in a public forum instead of speaking to a person one-on-one shows your personal character and will hinder you in many ways presently and in the future.

I heard about this and talked to Heat about it briefly on text...but now that I see this, I say BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

I wasn't even at the awards, but I got a TEXT from someone there when I was 100 miles away telling me they heard her playing my song at the event...

People, let's be real here...this BLOG alone is support...what other DJ's u see got a Blog posting up on a daily basis artists and events for the DMV? Not Alizay, Not Quicksilva, not no one and those are ALL my friends (Honorable Mention to BenHameen he blogs too, but just recently started) so to the article which I still ain't read, I say again

What's up DMV... Or DC or VA or MD... Whoeva you rep! I AM ALUV aka DEFAZIO of ALORIOUS... DC's INFAMOUS!

To anyone posting "Anonymous" toward Me or ALorious or GEM... When you stop being a coward... and can face the music... HIT ME UP! Ya know who you are JAZZ and imaginary friends... You got my number - 2023862234! You got my email address alorious@gmail.com! You know I be in DUPONT 1836 Jefferson Pl. NW... Balls in your court!

CAN YOU PLEASE GET ORIGINAL!!! "FAT BITCHES" Whomp...Whomp!

We don't do our music for this so called "DMV" we do our music for people that actually enjoy it!

Don't win nothing... ummm check the stats... We've won and been nominated PLENTY! Not just the DMV AWARDS... but what that has to do with anything... is beyond me cause that doesn't make or break a person! Certainly not us! We understand the politics of the industry and do things in this community in support of all artists...not just who we roll wit!

Complain about everything... We voice our differences just like everyone else... because we are more intelligent than the "Anonymous" posters... you think it's just about us! Jazz you just mad cause you thought your pimp was gonna rescue you from the lashing... so you pretend to go hard! Chick you and ya lies is so transparent.... all we could do last night was laugh.

No need to shout out GEM and LYRIK... cause mami... they don't fuck with you at all... Remember that time Lyrik got all up in ya shit and you thought she was gonna kick ya ass and you started crying... Then tried to say Lyrik ran... LOL Well nothing has changed... She ain't fuck with you then and she don't fuck with you now! With GEM you know you only got 1 time to dip ya feet in the water honey chil and you gonna see her evil twin emerge! They should steal you just for mentioning their names!...

NOBODY LIKES US... DUH!! Hence the title... INFAMOUS! Stupid go look it up! Apparently you know us and like us enough to sacrifice the three percent left in your peezy ass brain!

Whether DC stand by us, with us or for us... won't make a bit of difference.... We still gonna make it do what it do! Cause we artists in this city are to scared to work outside the box...to busy worrying about what the next man doing instead of what we need to be doing to improve and progress.

Damn right if it ain't no food we gonna be pissed! lol

DUH...when a person gets angry... normally causes them to be heated... Ummm... they sweat! Maybe if you had actually graduated... you would understand the concept behind CHEMISTRY!

Because this blog was intended to discuss how DJ Kash Monee tried to down play DJ Heat and discredit her winnings, I won't defile the sanctity of her blog with this bull dookey!

So Imma do what I make it do and put it on 16!

And from hear on out JASMINE BATTLE If you wanna spread ya lies, you know where I be mami! Stop acting like you all big and tuff when WE all know the truth... all that shit you was talking last night tryna be slick and post on the blog after hours and pretend it wasn't you talking... GURL we know ya game... I told you before... I DON'T BANG OVER THE NET! YOU WANT IT BIIIAAATTTCCCHHH... U CAN GET IT!

Oh! Since you and JOSEPH BATTLE are now officially divorced after what 3 months... I'll make sure your Mother & Father N Law here the news.. You better get over there and check they email before they do!

Oh... Joe's been informed as well...

To all of ya'll that Hate ME or ALorious... We love ya even more... Nothing can make me hate you cause life is far too short...

First & Foremost CONGRATULATIONS HEAT!! Job well done & we know u will keep on grindin 4 urself and the DMV Artists. Actually, CONGRATS to EVERYONE that WON!!

Y'all do know that there are more than 1 award show around here?? Keep grindin'...and u'll get to SHINE!

As far as the negativity going on... This is EXACTLY what's wrong with the DMV. Tearing each other down instead of building each other up.

Business & Personal are SEPARATE. Keep them that way & things run smoothly (as possible). We thought we were ALL adults and knew how to handle disagreements better than this. If u got words for someone, pull them aside and let them know, which can be done without further conflict if BOTH parties are mature and open. Sometimes u gotta think to urself, is it even worth mentioning and getting all worked up over?? MORE times than none..it REALLY ISN'T.

Positively breeds positivity, and negativity breeds negativity.

We ALL need constructive criticism and not EVERYONE is gonna like EVERYONE. Thats just NOT the way the world works. If u know u are on ur grind & doing things that r REAL, POSITIVE, TRUE, & w/ PASSION...the RIGHT PEOPLE WILL NOTICE and that's all that matters.

BIGUPS to ALL the DMV Artists on their GRIND and doing their thang. Know that we see ya and u r LUVED!!!!

If ur music is NOT in our rotation, whatcha waiting 4?? Submit tracks to music@wowuradio.net (mp3's ONLY; clean/radio versions PLEASE; Bio; 1-3 professional style pics; a image of ur current album cover)

DJ HeatI feel what you are saying and I agree. You can see that you can't please everybody and people are going to have some shit to say because they are unhappy about something within themselves. As long as you keep doing what you do...don't stop and fuck what niggaz got to say about it. As you can see from this blog, which should be deleted.....people are bitter, hatin, or just need somethin to talk about but it makes them look childish. Don't continue to read or feed into this..as Ray Charles says...."MAKE IT DO WHAT IT DO".

Mary, my problem is not with your writing. My problem was not with you mentioning the chanting you heard (BTW, I was all the way in the back and didn't hear the chanting you wrote about). My problem is with DJ Kash Monee saying that I DON'T play or support local artists. That's a flat out lie. How would he feel if I said that about him? I would never say that though, cuz I respect what he does with WKSH and saying something like that would be crazy and false. But to say that about me is crazy and false. How do I not support anyone when I started this site just for the DMV artists? How do I not support anyone when I go out and watch the artists perform just on the humble? How do I not support when I have a mixtape series just for them going on it's 4th year? How do I not support when I put DMV artists on my more national mixtapes as well? How do I not support when I give these artists the real about how the radio business is, but offer them the ways to get them the success without major commercial radio? How do I not play local artists when I hosted Home Jamz for over a year and 90% of the songs played on each edition was selected by me? How do I not play artists when a great deal of the unsigned artists heard on WPGCHD2 were all because of me? I can go on and on, but I shouldn't have to. Those artists really close to me know that I'm not one to speak on everything that I do because I'm not like that. I feel that what I do speaks for itself. But for someone to say I do nothing?! That's crazy! Everything I do every single day is to help the DMV music scene. I've been a fan of the DMV scene, and supporting this scene since I was teenager in the 90s. From passing out flyers for the Underground Sound show on WPFW as a teen, to going to State of the Union, to the tales of Freestyle Union, to my writings in my college paper up til the DJ Heat ya'll know today. I refuse to have a crazy lie told on me. This isn't about awards at all. This isn't about how people feel about me winning. Heck, I'm proud to say I did not ask not ONE person to nominate me, and people did it anyway. This here is about a fellow DJ...a DJ I thought I was cool with...a DJ that greeted me at these awards AFTER I had won...a DJ that SAW ME at a DMV event supporting folks and we sat side by side and he gave me his number this past fall...this is about a DJ that did all that, and showed me a side of him I didn't know he had by telling the craziest lie in the world on me. THAT is what this is about! I refuse to have my work get tarnished by a lie. And I thank all the artists that have given me words about this situation. Thanks a million. I'm not a negative person, so when something totally and completely negative gets said about me, it gets to me.

PHILLY-THA-KID (ALORIOUS NATION):TO WHOEVER ANONYMOUS MAYBE:FIRST OF ALL, I DON'T KNOW WHO MAYBE WRITING FOR JAZZY B SEEING AS SHE IS NOT THE MOST POPULAR IN THE UNDERGROUND SCENE OF THE DMV. SO QUITE FRANKLY SHE IS ACQUAINTED WITH IMAGINARY FRIENDS NOW.

PLEASE NOTE THAT THE CHILDREN OF A-LUV WERE ONLY HOUSED IN HER (INFESTED) APARTMENT BECAUSE ,WITH OUT A JOB, SHE WAS IN NEED OF MONEY AND WAS PLEASED TO RECEIVE IT AT THE TIME. SECOND, PEOPLE SHOULD ALSO KNOW THAT JAZZY B IS NOTHING MORE THAN AN E-MAIL THUG. TEXTING AND SENDING E-MAILS OF HER SHAMELESS HATE THAT SHE COWARDLY DISPLAYS. TRASHY B AS SHE SHOULD BE KNOWN IS NOT ALL HIGH AND GLAMOROUS AS SHE MAY SEEM. IT IS TO BE SAID THAT HER HOME IS THE MOST DISTORT PLACE OF LIVING WORST THAN SEWAGE. DOG SHIT EVERY WHERE LEFT FOR DAYS WHILE HOTDOGS, HALF SMOKES, AND EVEN HALF EATEN COLD CUT SANDWICHES STUCK IN THE MATRESSES AND UNDER THE BEDS.

IT SADDENS ME TO LEAK THIS INFORMATION BUT JAZZY(TRASHY)B MAY ALSO BE ONE OF THE LEADING LADIES OF ROLLERS OF DMV ENTERTAINMENT. NICKNAMED FISH MARKET FOR OVERWHELMING SMELLS OF DIRTY COOCHIE, SHE JUST CAN'T KEEP HER LEGS CLOSED ALSO BEING A MARRIED WOMAN. KNOWN TO HAVE SEXUAL RELATIONS WITH EIGHT DUDES IN AT LEAST A FOUR MONTH TIME LINE. WHY WONT JAZZY LET HER HUSBAND GO FISHING.

I DON'T LIKE BASHING PEOPLE OUT BUT WHEN CERTAIN PEOPLE JUST DONT QUITE GET THE PICTURE AND CONTINUE TO TEST THE WATERS, ONE HAS NO CHOICE BUT TO TELL THE WHOLE TRUTH AND NOTHING BUT THE TRUTH. BEWARE OF THE DISEASE OF HATE!!!

First of all, as a jounalist, it is not my job to blaze my own opinions on to my stories. I let the actions, thoughts, manners, and quotes of the people I interview show through my work for me. So please keep that in mind.

Next,As for DJ Heat--I understand that you may have restrictions as to what you can and cannot spin while you are on FM radio airwaves. I also know from the extensive talk I had today with Brother Maniac--you are loyal to the underground artists whenever you have the opportunity to do so. I am not the one who was shouting out for you to "play us on the radio." But I will report relavant information in my story. Believe me though, MANY ARTISTS complained about your win. I am not saying that it is justified for them to complain, I am not saying you do or dont deserve to win.......Im just saying Kash was not the only person to speak out about sponsors being nominated, and main stream DJ's being recognized. But it would have been repetative to the news story to make a list. Besides, its only a few peoples opinion of you, and not everyones. So keep doin' what you doin'.

Now.....onto other accusations about things in my story being false....1)EVERYONE who was at the event knows that the sounds system kept fucking up...so how was that a lie?

2)The hosts of the show DID have to re-do their entrance.....so how was that a lie?

3)The "gold" carpet WAS a little skimpy ass 10-foot long rug......so how was that a lie?

4)The dancers were off-beat several times during their performance, AND most of the dancers that I talked to backstage even admitted they had screwups.....so how was that a lie?

5)Some of the sponsors WERE nominated, and some of the DID win.....so how was that a lie?

So tell me where in my story was anything a lie? If anything is a lie in my story, it is not from my lips.....

And as far as mastering my "craft", I don't need to even think about it, because I do the best I can on a daily basis. I am a mother, a wife, a student, a teacher, a musician, a reporter, a friend, a veteran, and much more. I haven't mastered anything yet, but i strive for excellence in everything I do.

There is room for improvement in all of us---and there is room for the DMV EMAs to grow and get better. This article is not about "trashing" the INTENTION of the awards show....but rather critiquing the problems that need to be addressed for next year.

I'm disappointed with a lot of things in this post. We are going to have to do better as a unit and as a city. People act as if the DMV Awards govern who they are. If you don't win, FUCK IT. I rarely comment on things but its like getting mad at someone with diarrhea because you're constipated. Straight nonsense. I'm not concerned with what people think about the DMV awards nor do I care about who wins or doesn't- Can we shoot for grammys? PLEASE?? Even if you are salty, don't public voice and publish it! lol. DJ Heat and Kash are my peoples so I'm not taking sides...but that was wrong and I hope you two iron it out. Thats all I'ma say, Out.

2nd!! You Got!! dam right I'm mad I aint get nothing to eat up in that joint! I stood outside for an hour! sat and waited for 2 hours for them to even start and they took forever with my champaign to take away the hunger pains.

This is GEM IN I of Alorious!!

boo now who da F@k are U!!

How you gon try and go on somebody up in here!! and come on here anonymous, where they do that at!!

though i didnt go, i support the idea of the awards. folks in media often have a compulsion to be pessimistic and negative in order to sell a story. its all for the controversy in a nutshell. we all know and see Heat out in the streets for real, not on no industry ish -- cause believe me, she could be all up in those other spots rubbing elbows with the 'celebrities' on a regular ... but she's out with the population of the 'DMV'. can't ask for too much more than that na'mean .....

SECONDLY! BATTLE MUSIC GROUP IS A FRAUD, THEY AREN'T EVEN LLC'D AT THE LEAST!

SO IT APPEARS THAT ANYTHING THIS REPORTER WRITES IS NOT CREDIBLE.

YEA SO KASH MAY HAVE A CERTAIN AMOUNT OF LISTENERS...BUT IF YOU ASK THE AVERAGE NON UNDERGROUND CAT WHAT "WKSH" IS THEY WILL BE LIKE HUH??? SO WHY HE FEELS HE NEED TO DOWN PLAY YOU TO MAKE HIM FEEL BIG...IS TOTALLY WACK!

KASH LETTING JAZZY B GET IN HIS EAR... IF HE SMART HE'LL GET THE HELL AWAY FROM HER!

...AND THE BAMAS OF THE YEAR AWARD GOES TO (in an announcers voice) .... BEEN AROUND THE BLOCK, FISH FRY JAZZY B AND SALT AND PEPPER HEAD, VIAGRA BLUE PILL POPPIN....

OH...THIS DEFAZIO... GET AT ME IF YOU GOT A PROBLEM WITH ME STATING ME MIND!

Dj Fish mouth need to shut his lame ass up, he is mad and infected with that disease called HATE, he is a looser like his girl Jazzy B, rollin ass , she has sucked or phucked half of the underground entertainers , rappers, band members , club owners, radio station owners as well (dj Cash money) and he is still married and so is she running around like they are a happy couple and both of them are married ... but birds of a feather .. flock together , one of my dudes told me her apartment needs to be condemned its rat infested and trife in there, and she steps in the place like she is hot shit here is a hint SMELL THAT PUSSY OF HERS,now thats some hot shit, hell both of them trying to get on for real, and for the record HEAT ALWAYS LOOK OUT HELL SHE PLAYED MY SHIT ON THE RADIO ( THE HOME JAMZ BIOTCH)so get into it , thats why no one even kno that station but they know DJ HEAT . GET INTO IT

This article should not come as any surprise. Every year after the DMV Awards you'll find a lot of people (who didn't win) complaining about it. The person who wrote this clearly had a negative agenda she was pursuing.

The DMV EMA's is only in its' 3rd year of existence and it's not perfect. However, Bro. Maniac is listening to both the positive and negative criticism and he's working to make improvements every year.

For the record, I will state that I've heard several respected DMV artists say they don't think that persons affiliated with the Awards program should be nominated in order to avoid conflicts of interests.

wow...did you have to go there @ ALorious...come on.... I got a feeling that DMV will once again be DC.....Do we fight out in public or do we get togther and resolve our problems among eachother?..Do you know how many people read Heat's Blog!! not just only DMV heads but outside of that....

If we want to Talk about TRU underground Heads and movements!! lets talk, other then that......SHHHHHHHHH

Big up to heat,...Congrats on your Awards you earn them...Now you might have never played my stuff on the radio,but i have seen your face at alot of events in the city!!! So you earn my respect!!!!! and trust me that's HARD TO EARN (Gangstarr)